A Thing of Beauty - Travels in Mythical and Modern Greece by Peter Fiennes
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
'There's an infectious enthusiasm and self-deprecating authority to Fiennes's insights and he's a most agreeable companion.' Guardian on FootnotesIt's now a golden age for these tales - they crop up in novels, films and popular culture. But what's the modern relevance of Theseus, Hera and Pandora? Were ...Show more
The Piano Shop On The Left Bank by T E Carhart
$27.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
"Ever since the piano was invented, people have longed to own one. In the nineteenth century, an age without recorded music or television, this craze reached its apex. Pianos were everywhere- they swelled and shrank in the heat of the colonies, they were in every genteel home, in restaurants, on steamsh ...Show more
Spinoza's Overcoat: Poets by Subhash Jaireth
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
'It starts to rain as I step out of my hotel ....' So begins Subhash Jaireth's striking collection of essays on the writers, and their writing, that have enriched his own life. The works of Franz Kafka, Marina Tsvetaeva, Mikhail Bulgakov, Paul Celan, Hiromi Ito, Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza and othe ...Show more
The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue Des Martyrs by Elaine Sciolino
$26.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Elaine Sciolino, the former Paris bureau chief of the New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street, offering an homage to street life and the pleasures of Parisian living. While many cities suffer from the leveling effects of globalization, the rue des Martyrs maintains its disti ...Show more
The Complete Trip in a Van Guide to Australia by Justin Lorrimer, Bec Lorrimer
$49.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Plan the trip of a lifetime with expert advice and a full itinerary from Australia's most popular travelling family. In the seven years since the 'Trip In A Van' family set off on their first adventure, they've covered tens of thousands of kilometres and become Australia's most popular travelling famil ...Show more
Japan: The Passenger by Various
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: The\Passenger Ser.
'Some Japanese stories end violently. Others never end at all, but only cut away, at the moment of extreme crisis, to a butterfly, or the wind, or the moon.' - Brian Phillips
Paris and Other Disappointments by Adam Rozenbachs
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Sick of going overseas and enjoying himself, comedian Adam Rozenbachs decided he should take his father on the trip of a lifetime to Europe. For his dad, it was a chance to return to the place he hasn't seen fleeing post-war Germany as an immigrant. For Adam, it was a chance to repay his dad for everyth ...Show more
On The Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Road Trip by Paul Theroux
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Mexico
Nogales is a border town caught between Mexico and the United States of America. A forty-foot steel fence runs through its centre, separating the prosperous US side from the impoverished Mexican side. It is a fascinating site of tension, now more than ever, as the town fills with hopeful border crossers ...Show more
How to Travel (The School of Life) by Alain de Botton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
An original and comprehensive look at what it is we seek when we set off on an adventure abroad - and at how we can travel better, so that our experiences overseas become truly transformative and memorable. Going travelling is one of the few things we undertake in a direct attempt to make ourselves happ ...Show more
The Rings of Saturn: (Vintage Voyages) by W.G. Sebald
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Voyages Ser.
VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindWhat begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia becomes the great, constellated story of people and cultures past and present- of Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad, of fi ...Show more
Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance: 40th Anniversary Edition by Robert Pirsig
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Category: Travel Literature
A book which speaks directly to the confusions and agonies of existence, detailing a personal, philosophical odyssey.
American Journeys by Don Watson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
A superb book about Don Watson's journeys around America. Featured as one of Newsweek's 50 'What to Read Now and Why' titles. Only in America - the most powerful democracy on earth, home to the best and worst of everything - are the most extreme contradictions possible. In a series of journeys acclaimed ...Show more